with preparations, but with chief art meteorologist doug hill. >> a quiet evening outside of furniture weather center. get used to the clouds the next days. monday, tuesday, that would be the time frame for the most dramatic effects from sandy. is weakening now, but all the hurricaneom it willuggests again to hurricane status after it diminishes a bit.e at monday,ng tuesday, making landfall some -- somewhere along the mid-atlantic coast line at afternoon. top went right out of 75. the expectation still on is a good day to finish storm preparations. sunday, shower in the morning, a better chance at night. developing through the day is whennd tuesday, that rainll have the heaviest wind, gustyt

showers leftover into tuesday wednesday. the leaves, if you live by the the bay, astronomical tides. be an issue.d downed trees, power outages. the all of these things to start about.g jennifer donelan has been in how residentsee for thearing of a big blow from the storm. what is up? different tone, day closer to the weekend. metro station at federal triangle. overnight, metro crews placed around the greats. the concern is flooding in the would overflow through below into the .etro transit system now, everybody is taking they watch and wait for. in maryland, where the governor of thed a state mackenzie, ever critical agency from the fire department to city

talking about emergency operations. >> if it is on top of us or to the west, that could be serious storm surge. we don't know which path by go.icane will what we can do is make sure we are covering all bases. >> street crews were removing leaves. .> people are talking about it like a reasonably s possibility. hiseanwhile, scott makes of the day, talking had of the arrival. >> i clean out my daughters. -- i cleaned up my gutters. >> in kensington, they were preparing for multistate power outages.

a nightmare scenario for utility companies. pepco has all hands on deck and r contractors, they're extra workers. in rehoboth beach, sandbagging is well underway. >> we are very concerned. >> the virginia governor also state of emergency. >> they are pre planning instead of being reactive. >> we will do everything to make sure this race goes off at 10:55. amphibious. we like rain. we call it liquid sunshine. >> some counties are handing like charles county. are waiting until tomorrow, including the district. the big concern, the leaves. says if your bond to leaves in your front yard,

don't throw them into the them., bag this could cause a serious problem when it comes to flooding. for updates abc 7 on hurricane sandy. are not on the air, go to ouralways website, wjla.com. breaking news from takoma park. >> the police say an armored been stolen after a shootout. s fromare live picture newschopper 7. not releasedve details, but this happened on university boulevard. that shots were exchanged between a guard and a but they still do not how many suspects were .nvolved as many as three people we are told. just 11 days left until the election. impacting the trail.n today's rallyor mitt romney and vice president joe biden

for the weekend were canceled. john mccain was campaigning in formmonwealth of virginia mitt romney. was there and joins us from the newsroom. senator mccain was comparing the campaign to his own ago?years right.lutely first, the cancellations. a big rally also scheduled for president with bill clinton monday in prince william county air. in the governor mcdonnell says worst- scenario, he can postpone day, although that is not likely. another twist in an already unpredictable race. slip on theional understandable, but the of the path sat down of controlled tv

interviews. t is now the biggest concern. while joe biden stumped in wisconsin and continue to mock make romney -- out there is a lot of qualified women. >> he perhaps optimistically the movie iowa to soundtrack for air force one and ,ave an economic speech critical of the sluggish page out ofking a playbook. >> we need real change, big change. come.ime has sides concede at this wate there are very fe forcided, they are looking every one of them. about policy. is personal. better than john mccain. in our interview today, he was directly critical of the .resident's demeanor >> this coarse language the uses, i always treated respect when with s running against him.

i think this disrespect he y is reallyt romne not presidential. i think some people may decide that way. >> back to the ather, i have spoken with both camps. are not a bit uncertain as or romneyhe president few dayshe next because of the hurricane. again, he went through this with the republican convention. be the second time a has had a big influence on this race. >> still 11 days until the election. ok, scott thuman, thank you. there is more of our vote 2012 coverage on our website, wjla.com. harry reid is in a vegas hospital after his motorcade was a car crash. it happened on a highway near the vegas strip. to nevada highway patrol, the chain reaction crash vehicles,ix capital police vehicles. harry reid was to get to

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and the room is filled with all these different kinds of coffee. actually, i just press this button. brew what you love, simply. keurig. >> that time of year, the annual corps marathon. scheduled to take place sunday. >> the marines can handle it. doubt the number of l stories from this but one runner will stand out. cleave caught up with him. >> this is not how most people gear up for sunday's marine marathon, but travis taylor is not most people. he is working on his second r the and has worked fo defense department and nasa. 39-pounde wearing this body armor suit when the

race starts. we canoal is to show armor suit and inebody can run a marathon it. able marines ought to be it.ear >> he designed and built the in the hopes of creating protection for u.s. troops. current body armor saves but ied's still take limbs. is hoping to stop that. my brother is going back for his fourth deployment in n in january. o do what i can to make sure he comes home safe. >> he may have the only body suit made by a concerned mother. >> the body armor it survives up against held gunfire, and even made it through the monkey bars. but 26.2 miles? is this the pace for the marathon? hoping that i can hold

up 26.2 miles. >> how are you feeling, 100 feet? >> i am getting tired. [laughter] >> we have all hopes for a marathon man. the information for the marathon on our website. to wjla.com. >> what do you think for the marathon? >> the temperatures in the breezy, 15ies, breeze, scattered showers. a lot to share with you. cloudyftop camera, skies. that, we will have cloudy skies several more days, of whatever will sandy.with like adverse affects by monday, sunday night, especially into tuesday. 67 in chevy chase. is an average temperature. further to the south, along the

coast, still picking up wind s of 52 m.p.h., the no beach. wind outorth, the quite as strong. 71 the official high at reagan national, 63 the morning low. front we have been was slowly make move, but it is a big player in what will happen. behind it, there is upper level support, a dip in the jet stream. interacttures will with sandy as it moves north. this will have to turn to the because the north atlantic a ridge of high pressure that.ill block the anticipation is still we been saying, this storm act together. it has not sheered apart a overe, but it will move waters, pull back together. be upgraded back to a e before it makes few days.he next complex set of atmospheric

circumstances, but it is amazing models haveuter similar conclusions. that is because of the approach to thee west, the block north, it has to turn to left. if by some crazy happenstance it left, we are off hook. that will not happen. where it makes landfall, virginia beachen long island, but because moves into the tropical wind and rain will spread dramatically over a large area. e affected inl b the mid-atlantic and northeast. the further north, especially if south overs further atlantic, the water will across southern new england, new york city, the harbors. potential with tens of millions of people. is something we are taking should,iously, and you too. day is sunday and theay night because that is

is expect to turn to the north and northwest. the sunday whether, showers, cool, a bit of a breeze, in the 50's. , increasing wind and rain, according to the current time line. tuesday, i think that will be it, high wind, hiring, possible flooding. the temperature is going down, wind and rain probability going up in advance of sandy. >> and now the toyota sports your brought to you by dealers.ota >> speaking of the weather, it still underetcher the weather? >> london is questionable. he may be the iron man, but he still mortal. s incredible 231 game streak, he practiced today, g in individual drills only. after a six-hour

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>> the next important date from the hurricane center will be right before 11:00. we will have updates tonight, wjla.com the on-line home that you need to know. world news is next. >> be ready and be with us at 11:00. have a good night. [ mitt romney ] we have to work on a collaborative basis.

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